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The WTO is harming Consumers
 Here's how... The Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) law was shot down by the WTO because they say COOL is a non-tariff barrier to free trade and it treats Canadian and Mexico's products "unfair." Subsequently, due to the WTO ruling, our US cattle producers are forced to pay $3.6 billion in retaliatory tariffs by Mexico and Canada - unless COOL is repealed. The COOL laws protect Americans by letting them know where the meat was born, raised, and slaughtered. If COOL isn't repealed, not only are our cattle producers facing major fines, but our consumers won't know where the meat they are buying is coming from! Wow. Do we seriously need a group of secret people telling us what to do or what not to do. In a poll conducted by Consumer Reports National Research Center, the results showed the 93 percent of American consumers want to have COOL laws in place. The WTO should not be telling us what to do. -Thom (What do you think? Tell us here.) |
Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 10pm... The GOP Wants To Break Up the Banks? (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT or Free Speech TV, and catch past shows on Youtube)
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Need to Know: Trump's "Country First"
- John Nichols, The Nation Magazine/People Get Ready: The Fight Against a Jobless Economy and a Citizenless Democracy 
Screwed: The Right's Crazy For God
- Frank Schaeffer, Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of It Back
PLUS, The GOP Wants To Break Up the Banks?
- Sam Sacks, The District Sentinel
Best of the Rest: Is Trump Changing on Global Trade?
- Dr. Mark Weisbrot, Center for Economic and Policy Research (C.E.P.R.)/Just Foreign Policy/FAILED: What the "Experts" Got Wrong about the Global Economy
Right Wing Twitter Attacks on Leslie Jones
- Benjamin Dixon, The Benjamin Dixon Show |
Thursday's Daily Stack 
Why Does the GOP Lie About... What Freedom Means?
Speech: " A Rendezvous With Destiny", 27 June 1936 acceptance speech by Franklin D. Roosevelt. " An old English judge once said: "Necessitous men are not free men.""
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